Re: RAC

instance name ~ I can't think of any reason you'd use dbname. oratab is used by oraenv, dbstart and dbshut. it's also often used by shell scripts or to quickly check what ORACLE_HOME's are installed. (although the inventory can do this too, slightly better.)

-Jeremy

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I had a query concerning oratab. Do we need to have dbname or instance
> name in it and what is the benefit of using one over the other. I know that
> if I want to use oraenv, i need to make it insance name. What are the
> drawback of changing the default dbname to instance name.
>
> TIA
> Sanjay
>
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